MEET THE 2010-2011 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE

Jeff Bertoli, '77
Jeff graduated from St. Mary's College in Moraga, CA in '81 with a BS degree in Business Administration and Management. After graduation he moved back to Santa Rosa, CA. where he worked as a stock broker for First Jersey Securities, a loan officer for Crocker Bank (now Wells Fargo) and has held several positions within Agilent Technologies (formerly Hewlett Packard) where he has worked for 25 years. He currently is a Commodity Manager supporting worldwide software procurement activities. Jeff has been married to Julie for 18 years and they have a daughter Adriana, who is a senior at Ursuline and a Cardinal Newman sophomore son Lucas. When he is not on the sidelines of one of his children's sports events (dominated by soccer, football and track), he is thoroughly wrapped up in making wine. Jeff has been an amateur winemaker since '98 and his goal is to be selling his wine commercially to all of his fellow Alum's (and many others!!) some day. In addition to his focus on family, work and wine he supports CN via his participation on the Alumni Association Committee, The Cardinal Newman Board of Directors, and coaching Newman's freshmen baseball team.

Bill Rousseau, 1975
After graduating from Cardinal Newman in 1975, I attended SRJC where I obtained an Associated Arts Degree.  After 20 some years of living in Santa Rosa, I left the area to attend California State University Sacramento, were I received my Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration - concentrated in Finance. While living in Sacramento, I meet my wife Joan.  We met on a ski trip offered by the Sac State Ski Club. It included a 26-hour bus trip to Aspen, Colorado.  Wow, what a bus ride! In the early 1980's, I returned to Santa Rosa and started working for Merrill Lynch Realty. After two educating years in real estate, home mortgage rates were in the 15% range, I started my existing career in the Sonoma County Assessor's Office. Over the years, I have worked my way up the ranks in the office, holding six different positions. I'm currently the Chief Deputy Assessor. I'm responsible for all of the offices operations, which includes the assessment of all taxable real and personal property in Sonoma County. Yes, I'm the property taxman! My son, Kyle, is also Newman Alumni, Class of 2005, and my daughter, Michelle, is an Ursuline Alumni. One of the main motivations for joining the Alumni Association is because of the example set by my father, Ed Rousseau. He, like so many of the dad's from the early 1970's, was committed to helping Cardinal Newman in any capacity he could. Besides being on the Alumni board, I'm also an active member in the Santa Rosa Rotary Club, where I serve as the High School Interact and Rotary Youth Leadership Awards Chairperson.  I'm also the current advisor for Cardinal Newman & Ursuline Interact Service Club. Since 2008, I have been assisting coach Steve Cavalin with the freshman basketball team at Cardinal Newman.

Thank you to the CNHS Alumni Association for the gift of fencing to improve the Cardinal Newman campus.